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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
It's tricky. I don't think having an agenda is the point. But at the same time, fetishization is a problem.
I don't think Disney had an agenda when they made Song of the South, but it is a very uncomfortable movie to watch regardless. It presents a worldview that is wildly out of sync with what we know to be true.
When 90%+ of fiction about gay males is written by nice, married suburban moms spinning out fantasies without really understanding the world they write about, it is a problem.
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Song of the South was based on Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories and was fairly consistent with those stories. The somewhat ironic thing is that the Uncle Remus stories was basically Harris documenting the folklore that had been brought by slaves from Africa and passed down through the years. He actually put quite a bit of effort into documenting the folklore and validating the stories through multiple sources. Harris was very active in trying to normalize race relations at the time. Uncle Remus was an effort to humanize blacks for the average reader at the time. He was quite the progressive in his day.